Gallery Hours: Fridays 2-6 PM
Saturdays & Sundays 1-5 PM
Admission is always free.

Exhibitions: 2015

Martin Kersels: Tossing a Friend (Melinda) (1, 2, and 3)
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The Armory presents an outdoor exhibition featuring three photographic works by Martin Kersels on display at Roadside Attraction, the Armory’s open-air gallery in Northwest Pasadena.

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Parlor at the Armory: The World That Begins Where Our Skin Ends
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The Women’s Center for Creative Work is a network of Los Angeles-based women engaged in conversations about contemporary feminisms and creative practices.

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Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries
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The first retrospective exhibition of this influential feminist artist features a selection of works from Wilding’s studio practice spanning the past forty years.

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Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 9: Constance Mallinson, Free Painting
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Mallinson’s exhibition ends the sequence with an offering, a free painting, all the while positing the role of painting today in an attempt to literally free it from its dependence on the art market for relevance and meaning.

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Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 8: Sarah Kate Wilson, Projected Paintings
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Viewers are invited to create their own “paintings” by selecting and placing assorted laminated pouches on the glass plate surface of the projector.

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Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 7: Kate Gilmore: Pushing Paint
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Kate Gilmore critiques modernist tropes such as action painting and “the drip” that are still in dialogue with painting to this day. This exhibition includes a selection of performance videos that challenge the heroic myths and gendered stereotypes of painting.

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Mónica Mayer and Victor Lerma: Pinto mi Raya
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Pinto mi Raya (“to draw the line”) is a multi-disciplinary art project founded by Mexico City-based artists Mónica Mayer and Victor Lerma to “lubricate the Mexican Art System.” It began as an artist-run gallery in 1989, at a time when both galleries and museums were particularly closed to non-traditional forms of art.

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Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 6: Kendell Carter, Constructs
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Using hip-hop culture as an aesthetic and ideological model, Carter references the fluidity of contemporary culture where individuals and objects flow in and out of identities, roles, and expectations.

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After Victor Papanek: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
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This group exhibition focuses on Victor Papanek’s pioneering influence on sustainable, socially responsible, human-centered design and the relevance of his oeuvre to current discourses in contemporary art, particularly in providing a critical framework for an object-oriented social practice.

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Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 5: John Knuth, Desert Dispersion
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Knuth creates a new series of performative paintings using emergency smoke flares amid a stark desert landscape.

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Joel Glassman: Humdrum Poetry
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The Armory presents a series of unrealized, never-before shown, and groundbreaking early works (produced from 1971 through 1989) examining Glassman’s musings with the mundane.

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The Making of Personal Theory: Mysticism and Metaphysics in the Work of Sara Kathryn Arledge, Charles Irvin, and Jim Shaw
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A three-person exhibition that takes notions of “the mystical” as an entry point to consider daily encounters that are marked with eccentricity, the surreal, and a dream-like passage of time.

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Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 4: Liat Yossifor, Gesture (as) Consequence
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In this exhibition, Yossifor’s time-based painting process converges with the quintessential time-based medium, wet cement.

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